Artificial tree package

Claim 1

A PACKAGE FOR THE SHIPMENT AND STORAGE OF THE DISASSEMBLED PARTS OF AN ARTIFICIAL TREE COMPRISING A BASE SERVING AS A BRANCH HOLDER DURING SHIPMENT AND STORAGE OF THE TREE, AND BRANCHES EACH HAVING A RELATIVELY RIGID CORE AND FLEXIBLE RESILIENT FRINGE FINGERS OUTSTANDING FROM THE CORE AND IN OVERLAPPING ENTANGLEMENT WITH THE FINGERS OUTSTANDING FROM ADJACENT CORES, AND A SECTIONAL TRUNK HAVING HOLES THEREIN FOR THE RECEPTION OF THE END PARTS OF THE CORES WHEN THE TREE IS ASSEMBLED, THE BASE BEING PROVIDED WITH RELATIVELY SMALL CLOSELY SPACED HOLES FOR THE RECEPTION OF SAID END PARTS OF THE CORES AND BEING PROVIDED WITH A RELATIVELY LARGE HOLE FOR THE RECEPTION OF THE LOWERMOST PART OF THE TRUNK, THE SMALLER HOLES BEING SPACED APART A DISTANCE LESS THAN THE OVERALL DIAMETER OF THE FINGERS, THE FINGERS OF ADJACENT BRANCHES BEING ENTANGLED TO FORM AN INTERLOCKING MASS RESISTING SEPARATION, THE FINGERS BEING SUFFICIENTLY RESILIENT TO YIELD WHEN MOVED PAST EACH OTHER BY MOVEMENT OF THE CORE THEREOF AND TO RESUME THE NORMAL FREED POSITIONS THEREOF WHEN WITHDRAWN FROM THE PACKAGE, AND CONTAINER MEANS ENCLOSING AND FITTED TO THE BASE AND THE MASS.